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...Dole celebrated his 72nd birthday last Saturday, an occasion of more than passing significance. For it reminded the leaders of his party, the pundits searching for big issues and perhaps even a few real live voters of the thing Dole would most like them to ignore: if he were to win the presidency in 1996, he would be the oldest man ever inaugurated. Even if age doesn't matter, ideas do. At the very moment when voters have installed a generation of laser-guided, soul-driven Republican reformers, he finds himself cast as the embodiment of old-style, gear-grinding...
...nine-page document, released last Friday on the eve of the candidate's birthday, is the most complete medical information released about a presidential candidate in memory, including chemistry, urinalysis and blood charts, an ekg chart and a four-page summary. "The patient is in excellent health with all medical conditions stable or controlled," was the verdict of Dr. John Eisold, the attending congressional physician. Dole's campaign carefully leaked the materials early to selected news organizations, including Time, and provided opportunities to photograph the candidate on his treadmill...
...shirt and the knot on his tie by himself. He exercises regularly on the treadmill his wife Elizabeth bought him a few years ago and then spent months coaxing him to use. (Horrified at the recent photo ops, she vowed to buy him some decent jogging shorts for his birthday.) Now he's as religious about his workout as his wife, spending 30 minutes on the machine three or four times a week. Because pulling backward is one motion his disabled right arm can make, Dole bought a rowing machine last year to improve his upper-body strength...
...72nd birthday, the candidate talked in his Capitol office with correspondents Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty about the cycle of age, experience and shifting politics...
Flanked by original sponsors ofMedicare, President Clinton commemorated the program's 30th birthday and vowed to a crowd of mostly elderly Americans, "I'm not going to let the government mess with your Medicare." Right on schedule,GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrichaccused the President of "a despicable strategy" to scare seniors: "He knows his numbers are false. He knows his anlaysis is false." Republican leaders challenged Clinton to present a plan to save Medicare within a week, though they gave themselves more time: "Republicans will have in 50 days a specific plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy," promised House Ways...